Building Consultancy
Our building consultancy division provides a wide range of surveys and detailed advice, which draws upon the extensive experience of our team throughout Yorkshire and the UK.
Summary
We provide comprehensive building surveys for a variety of purposes across all sectors, whether for individuals, SMEs or corporate companies. As members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Bradley-Mason LLP services include building surveys, acquisition surveys and due diligence advice for clients who are acquiring property for owner occupation, investment or leasehold purposes.
Professional and Experienced
Specific advice can be provided on an individual building defect as part of our building pathology service and if a claim proceeds to court, we can provide expert witness advice. We work with our clients to develop reporting styles to suit their business requirements and ensure the right level of detail is presented in an appropriate manner to suit business objectives. With over 30 years of experience our chartered building surveyors advise on a wide range of building types and specific defects on buildings ranging from historic listed buildings to multi-storey offices, complex factories, office blocks and retail premises.
Clients We Work With
We work with clients across a broad range of sectors, including property buyers and asset sellers, commercial landlords and tenants, business operators and investment managers.
The Combined Approach
For clients acquiring or disposing of leasehold premises, we can combine a building survey with a schedule of condition and draw upon our dilapidations experience to ensure you do not incur an onerous liability when signing a lease. We can negotiate the findings of our surveys with landlords or vendors to ensure our client’s costs are covered and any problems are resolved prior to acquisition. We also undertake vendor’s surveys to highlight any issues which may affect the sale of premises.
In conjunction with our general building surveys, we provide a variety of specialist services including party wall advice, preparation of condition surveys to identify current condition and works required to existing buildings and develop these into planned maintenance programmes and planned preventative maintenance plans.
Our building consultancy services are also combined with other specialist skills to deliver a wider scope of services, in particular for our multi-site roll-out programmes where we advise clients from initial acquisition of the site, negotiation of the lease with a landlord through to the design and management of the fitout and advice during occupation. We can also recommend an asbestos surveyor who we work with should you need assistance in this area.
Meet the Building Consultancy Team
Our team at Bradley-Mason LLP provides building consultancy surveys and practical property advice to clients across the UK. Drawing on the expertise of our chartered building surveyors, we deliver commercial building surveys, acquisition surveys and due diligence advice tailored to each client’s property, portfolio and business requirements.
Sebrina is a chartered Surveyor with over 13 years experience in building consultancy. She has gained experience in the retail, commercial and industrial sectors. Sebrina has managed and undertaken pre-acquisition surveys, planned maintenance programme and condition surveys. She advises both landlords and tenants in relation to dilapidations. Sebrina also carries out project management roles for large scale refurbishment projects.
You can contact Sebrina on 01423 611 604
Iain is a Partner at Bradley-Mason LLP, with over 20 years experience in all core areas of professional building surveying services, with particular expertise in dilapidations, service charges, and landlord and tenant matters.
Iain was the landlord’s building surveying expert and was subject to cross-examination in the widely reported and referenced case known as Sunlife Europe Properties Ltd v Tiger Aspect Holdings Ltd & Anor (2013) EWCH 463 (TCC) (07 March 2013). This was one of the first substantial dilapidations claims to be heard in the Courts since the formal adoption of the Dilapidations Protocol and resulted in a Judgement and award of £1,353,254 plus 3% interest and costs.
Iain has numerous experiences of attending mediation, and has acted on many other high-profile claims, including a £43 million dilapidations claim on the former Lehman Brothers offices in Canary Wharf, and even further afield, he has prepared a schedule of dilapidations and expert report on Biras Creek, a luxury hotel resort in the British Virgin Islands.
Iain has also acted for a number of well-known companies across their service charge portfolios, including Vue cinemas, Azzurri restaurants and Hollywood Bowl.
You can contact Iain on 01423 611 604
Delivering a Quality Service
Ensuring our clients receive a quality service, which meets their requirements in terms of timescales, accurate advice and value for money, is our objective to ensure our clients are more than satisfied with the services offered. Where there is an urgent need for swift action one of our team can attend within a few hours. This is often essential following a flood or fire damage and we are advising on the insurance reinstatement works needed, and negotiating on our client’s behalf financial settlement with their insurers. Our standard turnaround is to inspect site within 7 days of instruction, to provide initial feedback within 48 hours and submit our report within a further 10 working days.
Letting You Get On With Your Business
One of our main aims is to ensure we deal with the management of your building requirements and ensure that you can get on with your day to day business. We find it very important to fully understand our client’s requirements and this assists in undertaking our role as efficiently as possible including the arrangement of access and notification to current occupants, arranging any necessary sub-consultants, any specialist investigations such as drainage surveys or roof access and in obtaining all relevant information. It is important to ensure we have as much background information on the property as possible before inspecting including title plans, leases, licences to alter, previous surveys, asbestos surveys etc to ensure we can fully review how a building has been occupied and managed and what risks it potentially poses to our clients.
If required we can then assist in the negotiation of our findings to ensure future liabilities in the demise, and our clients obtain best value out of any current deals, in particular freehold purchases for owner occupation or investment purposes or landlord contributions towards any fit out work for leasehold properties. We regularly liaise with solicitors and letting agents to renegotiate a deal to ensure our clients’ interests are maximised. This quality of service is recognised by our existing clients who regularly recommend us to their peers throughout their market sectors.
Planned Preventative Maintenance Surveys for Commercial Properties
A proactive approach to building management that focuses on preventing issues before they occur.
Schedule of Condition
A detailed recording of a property’s condition which is usually retained to use at a future time to establish the previous condition of the premises.
Project Management
Offering the full range of building pathology, design and specification services through to advice on procurement and project management.
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Speak to the Experts
With 5 offices throughout the UK, Bradley-Mason LLP are centrally placed to cover the UK and Europe. Please call the office local to you and speak to one of the team about your property requirements.
Harrogate (Head Office)
01423 611 604
London
0203 390 1217
Manchester
0161 403 0143
Sheffield
0114 368 0104
Bristol
0117 212 0139
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